Friday, 30 September 2016

Current Affairs Based on "The Hindu" for BOM/IBPS Exams

Q1. Government has fixed an export quota of ten thousand tonnes of white sugar to the __________ under a certain provision for the one-year period.

(a) G-20

(b) ASEAN

(c) EU

(d) OPEC

(e) WTO

Q2. The government has announced a total cash reward of how much Rupees for the medal winners of Rio Paralympics?

(a) 90 lakh Rupees

(b) 15 lakh Rupees

(c) 30 lakh Rupees

(d) 75 lakh Rupees

(e) 46 lakh Rupees

Q3. OPEC nations reached a preliminary agreement to curb oil production for the first time since the global financial crisis eight years ago, pushing up prices that had sunk over the past two years and weakened the economies of oil-producing nations. OPEC stands for?

Q11. Name the fisherman, who got the award for his active involvement in open sea cage farming, guided by the Veraval Regional Centre of CMFRI, off the Veraval coast?

(a) Hasanbhai Musangara Jumabhai

(b) Babubhai Bokhiria

(c) Anshraj Patel

(d) Shridhar Jain

(e) None of the above

Q12. Asian Development Bank(ADB) retained India’s GDP growth forecast at ________ for the current fiscal and forecast the economy would grow at _________ in 2017-18.

(a) 8.2 per cent and 8.8 per cent

(b) 7.4 per cent and 7.8 per cent

(c) 8.4 per cent and 8.6 per cent

(d) 7.9 per cent and 8.1 per cent

(e) 7.2 per cent and 7.8 per cent

Q13. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for Oil India, Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petro Resources Ltd to acquire 23.9 per cent in JSC Vankorneft for $2.020 billion and 29.9 per cent stake in LLC Taas-Yuryakh for $1.242 billion from national oil company Rosneft. Rosneft is an integrated oil company majority owned by the Government of..............?

(a) USA

(b) France

(c) Russia

(d) Japan

(e) Germany

Q14. Defence Minister has inaugurated the 35th Coast Guard Commanders Conference at Coast Guard Headquarters, New Delhi. Who is the present union defence Minister of India?

(a) Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu

(b) Prakash Javadekar

(c) Sushma Swaraj

(d) Manohar Parrikar

(e) Arun Jaitley

Q15. The World Health Organisation, a specialised agency of UN has declared the Region of _______ as Measles free.